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Monday 7 August 2017

Poetic Creation Type Questions

Poetic Creation type question aims at the hidden quality of the students. Students are expected to bring out his poetic ability which everyone has hidden in him. Questions framed under this would be of creative type. For example, questions may be like :
1. Add suitable poetic lines of your own to rhyme with the last two lines of the extract.
"Be it the victory of war or the mourning of defeat
Life sheds tears on death after all "
Answer :
Be it the victory of war or the mourning of defeat
Life sheds tears on death after all
Should we repeat
And make suffer this earth ball?
2. Arrange the following lines to suit the aabb rhyme scheme.
People slowly learn about life, my son,
Through the years, as suns rise and sink
But I beg you that now, and later on.
You won't be ashamed   -  to think!
Answer
People slowly learn about life, my son,
But I beg you that now, and later on.
You won't be ashamed   -  to think!
Through the years, as suns rise and sink

3. Write few poetic lines by using words (choose words from the extract)
4. Rearrange the following lines without changing the meaning.
When you are at home I have no peace -
I can't find a quiet nook
And time and again you come to me :
" Daddy, read me a book! "
Answer.
I have no peace when you are at home
A quiet nook I can't find
You come to me time and again
" Read me a book, Daddy"
5.Rewrite the following lines by changing background of farm instead of mill.
When the stars go off
Tall chimney sirens sound
Daily with fast steps
Marching to the mill

Answer :
When the stars go off
Cocks sounds cock a doodle do
Daily with fast steps
Marching to the farm

Students are expected to write their emotions. No doubt it is rather difficult. We should enable them write their own English. We have to focus on skill development. As an examiner we should test not the quality of the creation but the ability to create something poetic. As a teacher we need to arrange activities in the classroom so that students can try to create few poetic lines.
                                                Prafulla Mahure
  Mahatma Gandhi Jr College Gadchandur   

8 comments:

Thank you.